Data Engineer

Company Description

OUTsurance has been propelling the South African insurance industry forward for the last 26 years. As leaders in the field, we’re always looking for innovative ways to create digitally-advanced solutions, without losing sight of our human values. Our continued success can be attributed to outstanding employees who set the bar high with their energy and expertise. If you’re keen to grow your career in a vibrant environment with lots of ‘fun’, this could be the career opportunity you’ve been looking for.

What do you get OUT? 

• OUTsurance has been voted Top Employer South Africa since 2022.  Our people vision is to be a great company to work for where you always get something OUT.

We offer our employees

• A winning, fun and inclusive company culture that embraces diversity.
• Great Rewards and Recognition programs.
• Benefits (Medical Aid, Pension fund, Group life and Disability benefits)
• Growth opportunities (we hire talent, train skill and promote values driven leaders from  within)
• Wi-Fi on campus  and Emergency Panic-Assist through the OUTsurance app
• Employee wellness programs: Free Counselling, Legal Advice and Financial Coaching for you and your members of household.
• A chance to give back (Staff Helping SA OUT-volunteer program) and much more.

Your Duties and responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines to process large volumes of data from various sources.
• Develop and maintain data models, databases, and data warehouses to support the analytic teams reporting needs.
• Ensure data quality and accuracy by implementing data validation and monitoring processes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide solutions to support their work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to explain complex problems in a simple and effective manner.

Team Responsibilities:

• To design and build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant data infrastructure to support data processing.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation tools, deployment pipelines, and monitoring systems.
• Core to this is the team’s collaboration with other engineers, data scientists, and analysts to ensure the availability and performance of the data infrastructure.
• We evaluate new data technologies and tools that enhances the performance and reliability of the data infrastructure and drive adoption of these technologies within the bigger data community.

Create best practise “formulas” that aligns with OUTs data strategy and assist the analytical teams in adopting them.

Competencies 

• Ability to apply industry best practices
• Ability to give input into innovative solutions
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
• Self-motivated and a self-starter
• Ability to work in a team environment

Job Description

Do you live and breathe all things data related?

We are looking for a data engineer to join our growing team. Are you passionate about the technical aspects of OUTs data landscape? See it as a challenge to build processes that are optimised to run as quick as possible, delivering quality data sets that can be reused by multiple teams. As a data engineer within our team, you will be responsible for developing best practices and patterns, maintain our current workloads, optimize our data warehouse builds, data pipelines, and data products. The data engineer will support multiple stakeholders, including software development, actuarial, payroll and finance analytical teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, C#, etc.) and SQL.
• Proven experience with data modelling, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Understanding of data processing technologies and data management principles
• Familiarity with data technologies such as Synapse, Databricks, DeltaLake, and AirFlow

Additional Information

An ideal candidate will be able to align their personal work values to the OUTsurance values of Awesome Service, Dynamic, Honest, Human, Passionate and Recognition.

In accordance with OUTsurance Insurance Company Ltd Employment Equity goals, preference will be given to individuals who meet the job requirements and are from the various designated groups.